I’m going to have to split up because his phrases irritate me

[LittleBlackCurlyHairs]

Bloke I’ve been seeing for 8 months. He says the weirdest phrases and says the strangest things I can’t get over my annoyance.

One of them is, he’ll yawn and then say “oh! I’m yawning well!”. Wtf does that even mean?? I’ve never heard it said before and he says it almost every day.
Another one is “we need to nip that in the bun” bun??!! I have told him that it’s bud but he carries on saying Bun. I find it annoying.

“Keep sure you do that” “keep sure to set your alarm” etc etc ... keep sure?!

Jellypeano on the pizza

There is other stuff too but relationship aside ... has anyone else heard of these sayings?? (Keep sure, yawning well etc)

Bil used to do baby talk with mil. Both dh and I froze in horror on hearing it. I am very lucky with dh though occasionally he says “a bite to eat” which his parents say he’s on a warning on that tbh

My ex used to say he was going to “have a bit relax” used to drive me insane. He was also a lazy fucker though which didn’t help.

My BF also overuses 'in any way, shape or form'! Makes me wince/shudder. Every single time.

My ex used to have a fascination with the word "uncouth", even when it wasn't the right phrase for the situation. Very odd.

Taking the MICHAEL instead of Taking the Mickey

This is a whole other thread. Men (it's almost always men) who say phrases in that weird extended way. "Extracting the urine" for "taking the piss" is another one.

And calling each other Sir in a faux formal way.

And for saluting (when not military or remotely in any military related setting). Dermot O'Leary is a right bugger for saluting.

My ex used to say jesus chris (pronounced chrys) instead of christ it sounds so trivial but i actually wanted to rip his throat out

Isn't that Mr Slave from South Park?

Apparently women find this ‘endearing’ when the lads in Love Island, TOWIE etc. do this!
-no it just makes you look dim-

*the beautiful union

I read it as the beautiful unicorn*

Maybe that's what he meant, only he was the one with the horn,

I always say if I start to feel the ick in anyway then it has to end. The ick is never good

You've definitely the ick OP. Can see why.

Some people are commenting on things like "ow am ya?" That's regional dialect and an entirely different thing.

DH and I have picked up "for sure" and "in how far" as a way of saying "yes, ok, definitely etc" and "oh how? Can you elaborate?" Respectively, from our previous Austrian Au Pair. It stuck. hard. Also noticed that lots of none native English speakers will use "for sure" and those who work closely with the none mother tongue English, yet being English themselves, also say it. Just watch F1, they're all at it

Me and DH were equally horrified once sat opposite a couple on a train. She been charging her phone and he passed it to her and said “There you go..you are as full as a full thing from Fulham!” Then they looked at each other and simpered wrinkling up their noses...

Mrs Grindah - that's a misquote from BlackAdder. We use 'as blank as a blank thing from blank' all the time in this house. But I'd have been violently sick at the simpering...

Talking of saluting, an someone I was seeing used to turn up at the pub or wherever, saying 'salutations!', when leaving, 'I'll bid you salutations!', when hearing something amusing, 'good one, I have to doff my cap!' and when asking for anything, 'would you have any ketchup, perchance?' 'Could you drop us here perchance?'
This was in 2008, not 1808.

I dumped someone I was really into because he thought champagne was made with apples

Oh!

I know a few people that don't/can't pronounce obviously.
Its obvzly.

Late DM used to insist on saying "heighth"

crustycrab, "tret" for "treated" has been in use near Leeds for over 60 years. Yorkshire's a big county and has a lot of regional dialects. They still use thee and tha in Barnsley.

"Salutations"...This was in 2008, not 1808.

I tend to forget what things are called sometimes and the tv remote controls are now called ' doo dahs' in our house.
It's a bit of a joke now. As you age finding the correct word for something is hard going sometimes! (No excuse for the op's man as he sounds younger)
I often call ds1's dairy free cheese ' cheese free cheese' which causes an eye roll or two.

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North Yorkshire here and some of my born and bred friends use 'tret' for the past tense of 'treat'.

There's still a lot of Scandinavian words in the dialect too. It's not bad education or put-on, it's local dialect. People say things like 'gang yam' for 'go home' for example.

I think family idioms get so ingrained that people don't realise other folk find them irritating.
DH also says "bite to eat" for any eating occasion. He also says he's going to "escape the house" instead of going out. They make my teeth itch...
He also occasionally uses baby words but I pull him up on it. Why does he call my indigestion 'tummy ache' but his IBS? grr...

Another confirmation that 'tret' is northern for treated.

I find some of the dialect from my region (North Yorkshire) quite irritating (munt, tret, people saying "by" as roughly equivalent to "well!") but I accept it's my problem and it doesn't indicate a lack of education on the part of those who use them. I do, however, loathe that supposedly humorous over-elaboration that some men use. "Why, I'll have a pint of your finest ale please, barkeep!" They almost always have huge, Victorian style beards as well.

talks about preparing a "bot-bot" for a baby that's being bottle-fed.
I'd have to take out a contract on her for that.

'Tret' is also used in Derbyshire, past tense of 'treat', as in the example 'I tret mesen to a breadcake.' Except in a lot of places in Derbyshire it's not a breadcake, it's a cob.

I'll probably get lynched for this but he sounds really thick! I couldn't be in a relationship with someone that intellectually inferior. I'd really struggle for conversation. One of my favourite things about MrBrim is the deep intellectual conversations we have.

@ PolkadotsAndMoonbeams

'The lesser of two weevels' is a quote from Master and Comander. It is the punchline of a joke.

@QueenOfOversharing

You lost my sympathy at 'panties'.